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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1560-1632, 1691
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Souking, vbl. n. Also: sukkin, swkyne, sucking. [ME and e.m.E. sowkyng (Wyclif), souking (1387-8), sucking (1573); Souk v.] a. The act, action or practice of sucking. Also (once), const. into. b. The action of obtaining milk from (of an animal) by sucking the teats. c. The liquid which is sucked. —a. a1400 Legends of the Saints xi 324.
Tha … bad the edris suk owt faste Al the venyme thai can caste In thai wechis that had mare care Of that swkyne than thai had thare 1596 Dalr. I 91/28.
With a verie smal portione of kitschine meit, buttir, milke, or cheis, mixed with meil quhilke throuch souking thay fed vpon 1632 Edinburgh Testaments LVI 25.
Ane dussone bairnes paipes for souking —1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 214.
They are fed by only sucking into some fine spirituous liquor —b. 1581 Sempill Sat. P. xliii 44.
Pareis in Troy, that all the toun forthocht, Preseruit from slauchter be souking of a beir —c. a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 127/21.
[He] hes geffin to the beis sik instinccione and craft to chaunge the sukkin of erbis and substance of diuerse floureseis and mony other thinges in hwny and vax
